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Turkey Pays for Eurovision, UK Still On The Hunt For Talented Amateur

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As well as the Junior Eurovision Song Contest, this weekend also saw the deadline for entries to the BBC’s “Your Country Needs You” talent show, which will choose the UK representative for the 2009 Eurovision Song Contest to be held in Moscow in 2009. At the same time, it’s also come to light that Turkish broadcaster TRT has paid 450,000 Turkish New Lira (about £180,000) to singer Hadise to represent Turkey in Moscow – although in previous years the payment to the artist was also used to fund the promotion of the act. So we have one country paying big

The Political Fix for Russian and the UK In Eurovision Is On!

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Remember all the noise made by certain parts of the UK media that the ESC 2008 result was a fix, that some countries voted for other countries for political reasons, arguably because they wanted to keep a significant ally (Russia) happy, so the oil and gas would continue to flow. Well, what goes around comes around. It sounds like Russia has just promised to vote for the UK, no matter what the song is, no matter who the performer is, no matter if it’s all right on the night or not. Sir Andrew Lloyd-Webber visited Moscow and met with Russian

High School Musical to save UK at Eurovision?

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Okay, call me crazy, but I’ve had a great idea… I think. It would mean sacrificing national pride to a mouse, but it would be worth it. The announcement that Andrew Lloyd Webber will be composing the UK entry to the Eurovision Song Contest 2009 gave some hope to the UK fans of the competiton (and diplomatic relations across the continent) that we might nmot end up in last place in May next year. The catch is we’re still doing auditions for a ‘talented amateur’ to represent us in the biggest stadium performance this side of AC/DC at playing Wembley.